| --- |
| dataset_info: |
| features: |
| - name: filename |
| dtype: string |
| - name: image1 |
| dtype: image |
| - name: image2 |
| dtype: image |
| - name: text |
| dtype: string |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_bytes: 59881425.25 |
| num_examples: 2043 |
| download_size: 56257629 |
| dataset_size: 59881425.25 |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/train-* |
| license: mit |
| task_categories: |
| - translation |
| language: |
| - mr |
| --- |
| |
| # SynthMoDe: Synthetic Modi Script to Devanagari Transliteration Dataset |
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| This dataset supports research in the transliteration of **Modi script**—an ancient Indian script historically used in Maharashtra—into **Devanagari**, the script currently used for Marathi and several other Indian languages. |
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| The dataset was introduced in the following paper: |
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| > **Historic Scripts to Modern Vision: A Novel Dataset and A VLM Framework for Transliteration of Modi Script to Devanagari** |
| > *Harshal Kausadikar, Tanvi Kale, Onkar Susladkar, Sparsh Mittal* |
| > **Accepted at ICDAR 2025** |
| > [arXiv:2503.13060v2](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13060v2) |
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| ## Dataset Features |
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| - **Modi script image patches** |
| - **Aligned Devanagari transliterations** |
| - Covers a diverse range of historical Modi handwriting styles |
| - Suitable for OCR, script transliteration, vision-language modeling, and low-resource script research |
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| ## Usage |
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| This dataset is ideal for: |
| - Handwritten script recognition and transliteration |
| - Vision-language model (VLM) training for historical scripts |
| - Document digitization and cultural heritage preservation |
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| ## MoDeTrans Dataset |
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| The SynthMode Dataset is created from the ModeTrans Dataset that is available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/historyHulk/MoDeTrans |
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| ## Citation |
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| If you use this dataset in your research or publications, **please cite the following paper**: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @article{kausadikar2025historic, |
| title={Historic Scripts to Modern Vision: A Novel Dataset and A VLM Framework for Transliteration of Modi Script to Devanagari}, |
| author={Kausadikar, Harshal and Kale, Tanvi and Susladkar, Onkar and Mittal, Sparsh}, |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.13060}, |
| year={2025}, |
| note={Accepted at the 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2025)} |
| } |
